Welcome to the September edition of our UNESCO Chair Newsletter! First of all, welcome back to those who return for the beginning of the fall/winter session at York University. For many of you it is also the beginning of the new school year, and another full conference and meeting season lies ahead of us. With […]
Welcome to the July edition of our UNESCO Chair Newsletter! First of all, we welcome our US colleagues back into the UNESCO universe as the United States will return to UNESCO as a full member state as early as July. We look forward to working closer together again! The month of June was packed with […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto and Happy World Environment Day! 5 June 1972 was the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Development and has been marked to celebrate the environment since then. While we often make the point for the equal importance of all three dimensions of sustainability […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto where the beautiful cherry blossom season is just coming to an end. We hope this newsletter finds you healthy and well. We are five months away from this year’s United Nations SDG Summit to be held in September 2023 to renew the global commitment to the […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto. Most who read this newsletter are actively engaged with promoting the concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and you are aware of the tremendous growth of the discussion and opportunity that has emerged over time. To accelerate action and to promote knowledge sharing, collaboration, and […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto. Welcome to the March edition of the UNESCO Chair Newsletter! From 6-10 March 2023, we will celebrate the global SDG Awareness Week and the national SDG Week Canada as a broad collaboration of the higher education community, featuring a number of events and activities. The week […]
Dear Colleagues, Network Partners, and Friends, Greetings from Toronto. Welcome to the 2023 edition of our UNESCO Chair Newsletter! We hope that the holidays were restful and 2023 has started on a positive note. As we have just celebrated the fifth International Day of Education on 24 January, we hope that continuing to work towards […]
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